Mark Steyn is not afraid on a 12 year-old boy who was recently in a coma:

Sorry, no sale. The Democrats chose to outsource their airtime to a Seventh Grader. If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man's job, then the boy is fair game. As it is, the Dems do enough cynical and opportunist hiding behind biography and identity, and it's incredibly tedious. And anytime I send my seven-year-old out to argue policy you're welcome to clobber him, too. The alternative is a world in which genuine debate is ended and, as happened with Master Frost, politics dwindles down to professional staffers writing scripts to be mouthed by Equity moppets.

But one thing is clear by now: Whatever the truth about this boy's private school, his family home, his father's commercial property, etc, the Frosts are a very particular situation and do not illustrate any social generality - and certainly not one that makes the case for an expensive expansive all-but universal entitlement.

After dismissing whatever the "truth" may be, Steyn submits real evidence of "social generalities" and calls Kathy Shaidle to the stand as his expert witness:

The so-called poor have cars and cable tv and free medical. They live in America in the 21st century, where school is free and libraries are free and a bus ticket to a better town costs less than a bag of crack. If they're "poor" it's because they were too lazy and stupid to a) finish high school and/or b) keep their pants on. Jesus had something to say about folks who didn't properly manage their money or other people's, and who squandered free gifts and good will. He told the adulteress to sin no more, not to find herself another baby daddy.

I was part of a similar "movement" twenty years ago. It failed then and it will fail again because socialism is fundamentally flawed and cannot work for long periods. Like anarchism, it is parasitical, relying upon the success of its despised capitalist host. That core contradiction dooms socialism to failure. Dorothy Day kept the Catholic Worker House open thanks to donations from guilt ridden rich people. One can multiply examples ad infinitum.

Why do "right wing Christians" seem to "care" more about abortion, or terrorism, or gay marriage/adoption or even the hoax known as global warming, more than they "care" about the poor? I plead guilty -- because there are more radical gays and feminists and global warming hoaxers than there are poor people in North America. These activists want to brainwash our kids, or worse. And terrorists want to blow them up. In the face of such threats, forgive me if the fact that Lakeesha can't afford a new weave this week cuz she spent all her money on a new cell phone fails to get me humming "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night."

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No one I know uses food banks. No one THEY know uses food banks. It is a common feature of human nature to think that invisible "other people" must be suffering even though my neighbours and I are pretty much cool. The people I've heard about who do spend all their government cheque money on beer then go to the food bank, or dress up as poor people to scam the Daily Bread.

Neither of these types of people are poor.

However, freedom of speech is at risk, the right to private property is not enshrined in our Constitution, Jamaican hoodlums shoot each other in after hours clubs, Muslims want special bathrooms and reading gay fairy tales to kids is totally cool!

That's why I don't care about the poor. They're no more real than Bigfoot. Those we and these lefty Christians call "poor" are "poor" because they've made a series of stupid choices; spend all their (actually, my) money on lottery tickets, beer, tattoos and manicures; are suffering from undiagnosed but easily treated mental illnesses; had too many kids too young; smoked behind the gym while I spent recess in the library, etc etc etc.

I grew up with them. They were jerks and losers. (Believe me, innocent Lefty Christians: you haven't met real "racists" and "sexists" and "homephobes" until you've spent time with the "poor.")